Students will read an article online about the first four presidents. The online article provides scaffolds for vocabulary and reading. Students can use the online quiz to check for understanding. Students will then perform a close reading of the article following six text dependent questions. The lesson describes the activities along with the language to use for each of the questions.

Video overview of what text structure is. 
Discusses with examples:
DescriptionSequenceComparisonCause and EffectProblem or Solution
Video offers clear examples for each of the structures with keywords emphasized. Easy to follow video for students and would work well for note-taking.

Per the creator, rreading and learning memory strategies utilized by the some of the brightest minds of all time. The structure strategy was designed by Dr. Bonnie J.F.Meyer in the 1970s and has been tested extensively with exemplary results in reading comprehension.
This video introduces how text structure helps us remember what we learn, why our brain likes the strategy, and the text structures of problem/solution and cause/effect.  The video addresses that expert learners use these strategies and then refers to a few inventors that may have used these.

These lessons will introduce students to the THIEVES strategy for previewing textbooks and non-fiction articles.  The acronym stands for:
T- Title
H - Headings
I - Introduction
E - Every first sentence in a paragraph
V - Visuals and Vocabulary
E - End of chapter questions
S - Summary
Teacher will model, students will practice with a partner and then use the strategy independently.  These short lessons could be applied to any textbook or article in a middle school classroom.